A Snap Happy Chappy

I’ve just bought a new digital camera, a Canon Ixus 2, and as is traditional when you buy a new camera you firstly open the box. Then you put the battery and memory card into the camera, then you turn it on and before reading the instructions you wander around taking pictures of everything. As you would expect that’s exactly what I’ve done and the snaps below probably say more about my mind than I’d like to admit.

I needed a small digital camera because I sold my last one to a friend (I hope you’re making the most of it Stu!) and my other one is the size of an SLR and isn’t really the kind of thing I’d want to take biking given that I tend to fall off quite a lot and / or get wet. This one should allow me to take pictures of the same quality as my expensive one without my worrying about its welfare too much. I’ll get a waterproof pouch and it should be okay.

You know what this means though? It means I’ll actually take it biking with me and you’ll be able to see the beautiful Yorkshire scenery even more! I should have thought of that when it was still summer but better late than never.

Top piece of kit though. Take it somewhere really dark, sit it on a fence and set it to 15 second exposure (on ISO 100) and see what you get. Some of the colours you get in the sky are really haunting.

It’s hard enough getting a normal shot of an active cat. One day I tried getting some close-ups of my neighbour’s cat but there was a delay between me clicking the shutter and the photo being taken of about half a second and there are loads of pictures of a cat half out of shot. Little beasts!

“An Air Vent For Venting Air” – I always wondered what those were for. So now that you’re taking all of these pictures with your shiny new digital camera, you just need something to help you keep track of the really good ones.

Cool! Did you go for the Ixus 2 as well then? Fanstatic piece of kit and the ‘stitch assist’ function is very clever, showing you the previous shot at the side so you can make sure you line up the next one.

When (if) my laptop hard drive gets fixed I’ll be posting some of the results.